Closet-seat.



W. M. KURTZ & M. R. MAY. 1

CLOSET SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 14, 1911.

995,355, Patented June 13,1911.

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CLOSET SEAT. I APPLICATION FILED 11.14, 1911 Patented June 13, 1911.

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WILLIAM M. KURTZ AND MILTON R. MAY, OF ATHENS, OHIO.

CLOSET-SEAT.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IVILLIAM M. KUR'rz and MILTON R. MAY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Athens, in the county of Athens and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Closet-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to water closet seats, and more particularly to that kind of water closet seat comprising two sections separated from one another throughout their length. And it consists in the means hereinafter set forth whereby the seat sections are maintained in the desired separated relation to each other to form a strong and stiff seat, and are hinged to the bowl, the pintle of the scat hinge constituting also, if desired, the pintle of the hinge which holds the seat cover in place.

l/Ve will first describe in connection with the accompanying drawings the manner in which our improvements are or may be carried into effect, and will then point out more particularly in the claims, those features of the same which we believe to be new and of our owninvention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a water closet bowl, with seat, seat cover and hinge embodying our invention in its preferred form. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same with the cover thrown back and partly broken away, and a portion of the hinge and seat in section to better show the hinge construction. Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modification. Fig. 5 is a view of a modified form of hinge pintle.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A A are the two seat sections separated from one another throughout their entire length. In the construction represented in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, they are secured at'their rear ends to a skeleton metallic brace frame B which is interposed between said rear ends and serves as a means to hold the seat sections at the desired interval apart, and in the desired relation to one another to! form a strong and durable seat. The metallic interposed frame to which the sections are secured is of sufficient length to give the requisite stiffness to the seat as a whole, without rendering it necessary to connect the front ends of the same by a cross stay.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 14, 1911.

Patented June 13, 1911.

Serial No. 620,971.

The frame at its rear end is cored out, as indicated at C, transversely of the seat, this tubular portion C being internally screw threaded to receive at opposite ends the pintle sections D, on which the seat sections are hung. Each seat section has in its rear end a transverse hole for the passage of its appropriate pintle section D, which is screw threaded externally to engage the internal thread in the tubular portion C of the frame which it is intended to enter. The end of the seat section is confined and clamped tightly between the head (Z of its pintle section and a shoulder 0 on the adjacent end of the tubular portion C of the frame B, a washer 0' being preferably interposed between the shoulder 0 and the adjoining face of the seat section. The skeleton frame B, is attached furthermore to the seat sections, at points at or near the front of the frame by screws or bolts 6 or their equivalents which bind tightly the frame to the sections at those points. The frame and seat sections and pintle sections are thus rigidly attached to one another so as to move to gether as a unitary structure. The pintle sections are individually adjustable so that each may clamp its section independently of the other. This clamping action is desirable in order to prevent the longitudinal splitting of the wooden seat sections, and also to avoid glue joints; and the independent clamping action is desirable in order that each seat section may be thus acted on, whenever the need arises, independently of the other. The use of the pintle sections separately screwing into opposite ends of the tu bular part C of the frame, is convenient for this purpose, but the same result could be reached by making these pintle sections D in one with the frame B and providing nuts to screw upon their outer ends by means of which the seat sections could be independently clamped and acted on as in the other case. This structural modification is illustrated in F ig. 5, and will be more particularly referred to in connection with. the modified structure shown in Fig. 4. In this Fig. 4, the transverse tubular portion C of the frame B in the preceding figures is alone retained, it having the form of an internally screw threaded cylindrical tube C, (corresponding to the part C in Figs. 13), into opposite ends of which the headed pintle sections D are screwed to clamp and confine the ends of the seat sections mounted on them, all substantially as already represented and described in connection with Figs. 1-3.

Manifestly in lieu of having a pintle and separating or spacing device composed of a tube and two separate headed pintle sections or rods screwing into opposite ends of the tube, the tube and pintle sections could. be made integral as represented in Fig. 5, where the device consists of a pintle having a central portion C with shoulders 0 pintle rods D extending in opposite directions from each end of the central portion outwardly from the shoulders 0 and on a prolongation of one and the same axis, and clamping nuts a to screw upon the outer screw threaded ends of the parts D.

The other portion of the hinge by which the seat is connected to the bowl, consists of two metallic brackets F, attached in any suitable or known manner to the bowland having eyes f, which enter and fit slots 9 in the seat sections (Fig. intersecting the passage in said seat sections, through which the pintle rods or sections extend, said pintle rods passing through the eyes The hinge for the cover II is conveniently provided by brackets 72, secured to a base plate 2' attached to the cover, said brackets being provided with eyes it which fit upon and can turn on cylindrical portions of the central part C or C, which forms the pintle for these eyes.

In case the frame B is dispensed with and a mere tube or pipe C is used for the central portion which intervenes between the two seat sections, the front ends of those sections may be connected by a suitable cross stay .9, which will afford the necessary stiffness.

In all of the three different forms of pintle represented in the drawings, the shouldered central part, as for example C, Figs. 13, C, Fig. 1, or C Fig. 5, constitutes the device by which the seat sections are spaced at the proper interval apart; the pintle rods extending from opposite ends of this shouldered central portion, are the rods on which the seat sections are mounted, and on which they are tightly clamped between the shoulders on the central portion and the heads on the outer ends of the pintle rods, the clamping means being separately ad justable so that each end section may be clamped independently of the other, the pintle constituting one part of a hinge for attaching the seat to the bowl, the other part of which hinge is composed of the brackets F, and the whole structurecon sisting of the pintle with its central spacing portion, and the'two seat sectionsforming when properly secured together a strong, stiff and practically unitary structure, with capacity for adjusting the clamping means to tighten their grip whenever needed, upon the ends of the seat sections held between them respectively.

Having described our improvements and the best way now known to us of carrying the same into efiect, we state in conclusion that we do not limit ourselves strictly to the structure details hereinbefore described and illustrated, since manifestly the same can be varied to some extent without departure from the spirit of our invention: but

What we claim herein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A water closet seat having two seat sections separate from one another throughout their length, a pintle constituting the pintle of the hinge by which the seat is united to the water closet, and comprising a shouldered central portion by which the two seat sections are spaced at the desired interval apart, pintle sections or rods ex tending from opposite ends of the shouldered central portion, on which the seat sections are mounted, and clamping means at the outer extremities of the pintle rods between which and the shouldered central portion of the pintle, the seat sections are severally tightly pressed and held, said clamping means being independently adjustable for the purpose of regulating the clamping action upon their respective seat sections as desired substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. A water closet seat having two seat sections separated from one another throughout their entire length, a metallic frame B interposed between and secured to the rear ends of the seat sections, and serving to space them at the proper interval apart and to brace and stiffen them in that separated position, a central shouldered transverse portion C at the rear end of the frame B, pintle rods extending from opposite ends of said central portion on which the seat sections are respectively mounted, and clamping means at the outer extremities of the pintle rods, between which and the shouldered central portion the seat sections are severally tightly pressed and held, said clamping means being independently adjustable for the purpose of regulating the clamping action upon their respective seat sections as desired, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM M. KURTZ. MILTON R. MAY. lVitnesses L. A. KooNs, FRANK S. ROACH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

